Pius XII gave an enthusiastic speech in English thanking the members of the 38th (Irish) Brigade as he welcomed them to the ...

Christians should read Scripture often, every day if possible, and look to the Spirit if reading the Gospel ever feels dry, ...

The sound of Irish pipes and drums filled the Vatican air in June 1944 to celebrate the liberation of Rome. At the invitation ...

It is generally held by scholars that Pope Pius XII made very significant and notable contributions to Marian theology, public piety and devotion to Our Lady. He was born Eugenio Pacelli in Rome in ...

Newly unearthed wartime correspondence from Pope Pius XII indicates he may have known about the Holocaust earlier than previously believed. Italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera, on Sunday ...

The Vatican has been trying for years to debunk the idea that its vaunted archives are full of secrets: it has opened up the ...

Who was Saint Paul VI, the pontiff celebrated by Catholics on May 29? Electedpope during the Second Vatican Council ...

A letter published today by the Italian news outlet Corriere della Sera appears to confirm that World War II Pope Pius XII could have known details about the Nazi mass killings of Jewish and ...

Taking a hand in the controversy over the role played by the late Pope Pius XII with regard to the mass-killing of Jews, the Rev. Robert Leiber, a 79-year-old retired Jesuit priest in Rome, who ...

Eighty years ago the Irish Brigade became the first group of Allied soldiers to meet with Pope Pius XII following the ...

O Immaculate Virgin, Mother of God and Mother of Humanity, we believe with all the fervor of our faith in your triumphal Assumption both in body and in soul into heaven where you are acclaimed as ...